- Do Electric Sheep Dream?
The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Group exhibition
Curator: Dimitris Trikas
Organiser: “ROOTS OF CULTURE” NGO
Marasleion Didaskalion, Athens, Greece, (November – December, 2024)
Participation with the installation: It’s Time to Open the Black Boxes!
The exhibition hosted the works of 55 artists and artistic groups, complementing a dynamic public program that included performances, musical events, and round table discussions with more than 50 speakers. With the visionary ideas of Hannah Arendt and Philip K. as a starting point. Dick, the exhibition explores the difficult relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Democracy and vice versa, raising crucial questions about the future of humanity in a world increasingly shaped by algorithms and digital technologies.
Danae Stratou participated in this groundbreaking exhibition with the work It’s Time to Open the Black Boxes! a participatory digital art project founded on the principle of “think global – act local”. It invites people across the world to submit a Single Word online in reply to one of two questions:
“What threatens you the most?”
“What are you most eager to preserve?”
- The Art of Immersion in Contemporary Painting.
Learning from Mark Rothko. Group Exhibition
Curator: Faye Tzanetoulakou
Lofos Art Project, Athens Greece, (September – October, 2024)
Participation with the work: Ice Squared
A Group Exhibition on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Mark Rothko (25/9/1903), the group exhibition The Art of Immersion in Contemporary Painting. Learning from Mark Rothko presents to the public the expressive possibilities of contemporary abstract painting, which draws its inspiration from the international Abstract Expressionist and his ability to create a sense of immersion of the viewer within the color field of the work. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, September 25, the great artist’s birthday, and runs until October 27, 2024. It includes works by 24 contemporary Greek and foreign artists, parallel activities, as well as the only book illustration that Rothko had undertaken, almost a century ago. Danae Stratou participated with the work Ice Squared (digital print on plexiglass 2013). An imagined landscape, at once familiar and alien. This print was created by deeply zooming in on a satellite image of a random spot of Antarctica’s icecap where the deep blue of the ocean touches upon the white of the surrounding ice-scape. The original image was created as a large floor piece, part of the installation Icesongs, La Verrière, Fondation d’enterprise Hermès, Brussels, Belgium (2010).
- The Tale Of Two Cities
Athens – Alexandria. Group Exhibition
The Acropolis Museum, (June – September 2024), Athens, Greece
Participation with the sculpture Javelin II (1997)
The Exhibition featured works of Greek and Egyptian sculptors at the gardens of The Acropolis Museum in Athens. The sculpture is 6 m in length, custom-shaped from a 4cm aluminum rod. It balances at an angle at a height of 2,08 m at midpoint on a 10mm stainless steel shaft. It aims perseveringly towards the sky. Its sharp edges piercing and transversing the spatial confines serve as a conduit for conceptual exploration beyond the physical space. As it traces an imperceptible line that transcends mere geographical boundaries, the sculpture delineates an axis that extends ad infinitum.
